Browsing Archive: May, 2015

It's not every day we get to see an arms race in action. Every gory detail is laid out by Paez-Espino et al in the March/April issue of mBio*. The authors use deep DNA sequencing to track CRISPR acquisition in the bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus when challenged with Streptococcus phage 2972 (a phage featured in Life in Our Phage World).